Posted on 06/02/2016 4:29:26 PM PDT by BiggerTigger
By fall 2017 Washington state public schools will begin teaching gender expression to kindergarteners under newly-approved health education learning standards that designate sexual health a “core idea” of public K-12 education.
While some aspects of sexual health aren’t taught K-12 (HIV prevention begins in fourth grade), one component of sexual health titled “Self-Identity” begins in kindergarten, where students will be expected to “Understand there are many ways to express gender."
The state’s health education glossary defines gender as “A social construct based on emotional, behavioral, and cultural characteristics attached to a person’s assigned biological sex.” Gender expression, meanwhile, is defined as “The way someone outwardly expresses their gender.” These definitions differ from the state’s definition of “biological sex”: “Based on chromosomes, hormones, and internal and external anatomy.”
Nathan Olson, a communications manager for the statewide Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), told The Daily Caller that the glossary “was developed to support classroom instruction.” The new standards were finalized in March but OSPI has yet to issue a press release informing the public of the changes.
As part of an aspect of sexual health titled “Healthy Relationships,” kindergarteners will learn to distinguish between “safe and unwanted touch.” They will also learn to “Recognize people have the right to refuse giving or receiving unwanted touch.” OSPI did not answer a question from TheDC about whether this lesson plan amounts to teaching consent to kindergarteners.
By third grade, students will be expected to “Explain that gender roles can vary considerably” and “Understand [the] importance of treating others with respect regarding gender identity,” as part of the “Self-Identity” component of sexual health.
Gender identity is defined by the state as “Someone’s inner sense of their gender.”
“The standards don’t define ‘gender spectrum.’ But self-identity is a key component,” Olson said when TheDC asked whether learning that gender is a “spectrum” is considered part of learning about “gender identity.” Last month, Fox News’ Todd Starnes described a Virginia county’s lesson plans on gender spectrum as “the idea that there’s no such thing as 100 percent boys or 100 percent girls.”
That lesson plan–which was met with outrage from parents–was designed for middle and high school students.
By fourth grade, Washington students will learn to “Identify how friends and family can influence ideas regarding gender roles, identity, and expression” and define sexual orientation. The state defines “gender roles” as “Social expectations about how people should act, think, or feel based on their assigned biological sex.”
In fifth grade, students will learn to “Describe how media, society, and culture can influence ideas regarding gender roles, identity, and expression.” Under the guidance of school employees, fifth graders will also “Identify trusted adults to ask questions about gender identity and sexual orientation.” It’s not clear if parents are automatically considered “trusted adults.”
By the end of elementary school (typically around age 11 or 12), students will be expected to “Understand the range of gender roles, identity, and expression across cultures.”
In seventh grade, students will learn to “Distinguish between biological sex, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation.” By eighth grade, students will be expected to “Recognize external influences that shape attitudes about gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation.”
This education continues through high school where students will “Evaluate how culture, media, society, and other people influence our perceptions of gender roles, sexuality, relationships, and sexual orientation.”
OSPI denied that the state intends to force a set of beliefs upon its students.
“Standards help students become familiar with concepts that education experts feel are essential for all students to know,” Olson said. “Standards are not used to impose belief systems.”
In response to a question from TheDC about whether a student who rejects the idea that “gender identity” is distinct from “biological sex” could end up failing a course on account of their beliefs, Olson said: “That would be handled at the district/school level.”
He later admitted that “we don’t exactly know what a school would do if a student failed to complete an assignment because he/she opposed the materials being taught.”
Olson said that the decision to implement specific “learning outcomes” lies with individual districts. Districts can craft their own curriculums, he said, as long as they “align with state learning standards.”
One ringy pingy.
Perhaps not as that date is after Jan 20, 2017.
Citizens of Washington State, you have been given plenty of warning. Begin homeschooling your children as soon as possible.
Ping.
And what can you do about it? Not a damn thing!
This kind of crap is the reason I haven’t voted FOR a school levy in many years.
Public Preschool is Child Abuse.
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they have made it “Pubic Preschool”
The elites are working overtime to push rtransgenderism on American children.
I tried pushing back but even some of the people on FR thought letting them in women’s restrooms was no biggie.
But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea
I called the principal and found out there a team of lawyers were working on the issue. What can a parent do against a “team of lawyers”?
Every bastard associated in any way with the Washington school system needs to be arrested, locked up and the keys thrown away. Every damn one of them. The taxpayers aren’t subsidizing these so called “schools” so they can be used to turn their children into sexual deviants. This is a disgrace. The taxpayers need to demand that no more taxpayer dollars be sent to these commie lib bastards. KINDERGARTENERS?! REALLY?! It’s time to fumigate these school of all perverts, freaks and sexual deviants.
OMG. They have totally lost their minds, all for the benefit of an infinitesimally small percentage of the population. For the sake of these sickos, all the innocent children must learn about sexual perversion. I suggest withdrawing your kids out of that disgraceful public school system and sending them to private school for an education, NOT indoctrination.
I’d bet that ten to twenty years ago, that perverts, in their wildest dreams, would never have remotely imagined that they’d soon be living in a country that would be so accomodating of their sick depravities.
This nation has descended into total madness. I don’t recognize a single thing about it anymore.
So, basically they feel that children are never too young to be indoctrinated into perversion.
It’s time for Mount Saint Helen and Mount Rainier to pop off at the same time.
And the biggest chunk of your property taxes go to support the public scrools and the critters who staff them.
Other than home school or private school, parents lose.
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The course materials are probably supplied or approved by NAMBLA.
North American Man Boy Love Association).
When I was in France in 1996, the only news in English was BBC. Every 30 minutes they reported the age of consent for homosexual male sex was lowered to 16. There must have been a huge sigh of relief from the staff and upperclassmen at English Public schools.
(Public school there would be called a private school in the US).
obama is doing to the school system what he has done to the military -
destroying the morale and making it a test bed for wacko social changes.
Worthless toadies like Inslee are all too willing to follow his lead.
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